On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 04:41:45PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:36:09AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > On 5/11/18 9:32 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > > > On 11 May 2018, at 10:10, David Sterba wrote: > > > > > >> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 08:16:09PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > >>> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 01:13:57PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > >>>> Move the btrfs label ioctls up to the vfs for general use. > > >>>> > > >>>> This retains 256 chars as the maximum size through the interface, which > > >>>> is the btrfs limit and AFAIK exceeds any other filesystem's maximum > > >>>> label size. > > >>>> > > >>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > >>>> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> > > >>>> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> > > >>> > > >>> No objections (and it obviously ought to go through btrfs tree). > > >> > > >> I can take it through my tree, but Eric mentioned that there's a patch > > >> for xfs that depends on it. In this case it would make sense to take > > >> both patches at once via the xfs tree. There are no pending conflicting > > >> changes in btrfs. > > > > > > Probably easiest to just have a separate pull dedicated just for this series. That way it doesn't really matter which tree it goes through. > > > > Actually, I just realized that the changes to include/uapi/linux/fs.h are completely > > independent of any btrfs changes, right - there's nothing wrong w/ redefining > > the common ioctl under a different name in btrfs. So the fs.h patch could go first, > > through the xfs tree since it'll be using it. > > > > Once the common ioctl definition goes in, then btrfs can change to define its ioctls to > > the common ioctls, or act on them directly as my patch did, etc. Would that be > > a better plan? IOWs there's no urgent need to coordinate a btrfs change. > > Agreed, I like that plan. Ok, I'll await a new series with all the patches that Eric wants to squeeze through the xfs tree. I don't mind carrying the btrfs changes too, so long as they're one-liners and the btrfs maintainers ack/rvb it. --D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
